In case you hadn’t heard, Donald J. Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize today.
I know. I know. Please try to quell your surprise to the best of your abilities.
The highly respected and revered prize was instead awarded to Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado, for her relentless and unyielding work against dictatorship in her country.
Donald Trump, who is perhaps the most racist, sexist human being to currently walk the face of the earth, lost the prize that he so desperately wants to a brown, Hispanic, Latino woman.
Suffice it to say, he’s not handling it well.
Despite the fact that Machado quite literally dedicated her prize, in part, to the American president, Donald and his team have had nothing nice to say about her victory.
Trump himself merely posted a screenshot of Machado’s X post, in which she wrote that the Venezuelan people are counting on President Trump “today more than ever” to secure their freedom.
No congratulations. No gratitude for her acknowledgment. He just wants everyone to know that he’s important, even though he didn’t win.
Donald’s cronies, however, are pitching a massive hissy fit across the board on his behalf.
Steven Cheung, a Trump aide and the White House’s director of communications, wrote, “The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.”
He went on to add that the president will “continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.”
“He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.”
Richard Grenell, Trump’s special envoy, who has been spearheading negotiations with Nicolás Maduro’s administration, took to X to whine, “The Nobel Prize died years ago.”
The Nobel Prize died years ago.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 10, 2025
Even Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, got in on the pity party, telling Fox News, “[Trump] deserves it more than anyone alive on this planet right now … But we know these people who establish who wins the Nobel peace prize hate Donald Trump – they suffer from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome.’ And in our hearts, he will be winning the Nobel Peace Prize… and I hope he wins it in the future.”
Trump truly tried everything in his power to secure the Peace Prize victory for himself, going so far as to harness the power of the United States Congress to implement a pressure campaign against the Norwegian Nobel Committee and pushing through a peace deal between Israel and Gaza this week, not because he actually gave a fat rat’s ass about peace, but because he hoped that forcing the deal through before the Committee’s announcement this morning would secure his win.
It didn’t.
In its formal announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize winner this morning, the Norwegian committee openly attacked and denounced the ever-growing wave of authoritarianism and dictatorship in Venezuela and other countries around the world.
While the committee never once mentioned Donald Trump or the United States by name, it seems the shoe fit, nonetheless, as many interpreted their statement as a dig towards Trump’s recent use of the US military against American cities and citizens.
“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,” the committee wrote in its statement. “Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage, and with determination.”
But don’t worry, Vladimir Putin — the very antithesis of “peace” in every conceivable way — seems to be on Donald’s side, saying of the US president, “He’s really doing a lot to resolve such complex crises that have lasted for years and even decades,” when asked by Moscow reporters if he thought Trump had been unjustly snubbed for the prize.
Putin failed to comment specifically on Machado’s win, but said, “There have been cases where the committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to people who have done nothing for peace.”
“A person comes, good or bad, and in a month, in two months, boom [wins the Nobel]. For what? He didn’t do anything at all. In my view, these decisions have done enormous damage to the prestige of this prize.”
When Putin thinks you deserve a Nobel Peace Prize, it’s a pretty good indicator that you do not deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.
That’s all I’ve got to say on that.
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